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Accepted records of bird rarities in the Balearics. Report for 2005. Fifteenth annual report presented by the GOB Bird Rarities Committee. Thirty-one records were accepted, relating to the following species: mute swan Cygnus olor, merlin Falco columbarius, little crake Porzana parva, Baillon’s crake Porzana pusilla, dotterel Charadrius morinellus, Caspian tern Sterna caspia, great spotted cuckoo Clamator glandarius, red-necked nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis, rufous bush-chat Cercotrichas galactotes, Savi’s warbler Locustella luscinioides, western olivaceous warbler Hippolais opaca, orphean warbler Sylvia hortensis, long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus, coal tit Parus ater, red-backed shrike Lanius collurio and snow bunting Plectrophenas nivalis. We also include 14 sightings in the Balearic Islands of species accepted by the Rarities Committee of the Spanish Society of Ornithology (CR-SEO) in its annual report for 2003. The most notable involve two accepted as first Balearic records: a desert wheatear Oenanthe deserti and a booted warbler Hippolais caligata. The other species are sacred ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus, dotterel Charadrius morinellus , pectoral sandpiper Calidris melanotos, yellow-browed warbler Phylloscopus inornatus, dusky warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi, redbreasted flycatcher Ficedula parva, collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis, the eastern subspecies of the woodchat shrike Lanius senator niloticus, scarlet rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus and the little bunting Emberiza pusilla. ; [eng] Accepted Records of Balearic Rare Birds. Report for 2007. The seventeenth annual report of the GOB Bird Rarities Committee is presented for the Balearics. Thirty-eight records were accepted, corresponding to the following species: common scoter Melanitta nigra, goshawk Accipiter gentilis (first record), merlin Falco columbarius, great black-backed gull Larus marinus (first record), Caspian tern Sterna caspia, great spotted cuckoo Clamator glandarius, woodlark Lullula arborea (first record), olivaceous warbler Hippolais opaca, orphean warbler Sylvia hortensis, Spanish chiffcaff Phylloscopus ibericus (first 12 records), red-backed shrike Lanius collurio, magpie Pica pica (first record), red-billed chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax and rock bunting Emberiza cia. A further 10 Balearic observations were accepted by the Spanish Ornithological Society Rarities Committee (CR-SEO) corresponding to the year 2005, the most outstanding of which were the lesser spotted eagle Aquila pomarina (second Balearic record and third for Spain) and black-winged pratincole Glareola nordmanni (second record for the Balearics and for Spain). The other species were sacred ibis Threskiornis aethiopiucus (of unknown origin), great snipe Gallinago media, yellow-browed |
Homologació de rareses ornitològiques a Balears. Informe de 2007